Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed ban, expected to go into effect in July, is based on a study by the Canadian government's health-protection laboratory in Ottawa. For three years, researchers fed rats daily doses of saccharin that amounted to 5% of their diet by weight. In the first generation of rodents, seven out of 38 developed bladder tumors, three of them malignant. In the second generation of rats-which had developed in the wombs of saccharin-fed mothers, were nursed on their milk and later given the chemical themselves-twelve out of 44 had tumors; eight of them were malignant. That...
...Sherwin-Williams Co. of Cleveland, the sole U.S. producer of saccharin, whose output accounts for 65% of the 8 million lbs. consumed yearly by Americans. Researchers pointed to the enormous quantities of saccharin fed the test rats-equivalent to consumption by a human of some 800 cans of diet soda each day over a lifetime. Said Duke University Biochemist Henry Kamin: "The dosages are so large that the result means nothing." In Albany, N.Y., Dr. Frederick Coulston revealed that his tests on monkeys-much closer to humans than are rats-revealed no harmful effects. Said he: "We gave saccharin...
...calorie sweeteners may well be a more serious health threat than this cancer 'threat.'" Diabetics are not the only ones who may be hurt by the ban. Millions of other Americans are overweight, a condition that can lead to such difficulties as hypertension and cardiovascular disease; without diet foods, their number is likely to swell...
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban on the use of saccharine in foods and beverages because it allegedly causes cancer has stirred controversy among physicians and concern among some students threatened with the loss of their favorite diet soft drinks...
...also keeps her away from New York two weeks out of three, and parted from Daily News Columnist Pete Hamill, 41, the man in her life for the past five years. While at home she stays trim with a regimen of exercise and yoga and a low-sugar diet. On the road her style is more inner-city Holiday Inn than posh hotel. "They're like motels without cars-you can go down the hall and get a bucket of ice," she figures. "It's also fun to run into all those salesmen I used to know when...